Due to the mess in the Assembly Albany, at midnight on July 1 mayoral control of schools ended, which means that the Board of Education is back in business. At some point during the day the newly reconstituted BOE voted to keep Chancellor Klein in
command. They elected Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott as president, and called
on state senators in Albany to pass the Assembly’s mayoral control
bill.
Here's the story from Inside Schools:
The newly reconstituted seven-member board will be made up of five
members , one appointed by each borough president, and two members
appointed by Mayor Bloomberg. Yesterday, Bronx Borough President Ruben
Diaz, Jr., formally announced the appointment of Dr. Delores Fernandez as the Bronx representative. According to The New York Times,
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will appoint his chief of
staff, Carlo Scissura, to the board while Manhattan’s Scott Stringer
will appoint his legal counsel (and former Advocates for Children staff
lawyer), Jimmy Yan, on an interim basis. There is no word yet on the appointees from Queens, Staten Island, or the mayor.
Check out GothamSchools’ step-by-step guide to the post-mayoral control school system for more information about what’s next for the city’s schools.
UPDATE (11:07 a.m.): We have just learned the rest
of the appointees to the BOE: for Queens, Deputy Mayor of Education and
Community Development Dennis Walcott; for Staten Island, Deputy Borough
President Edward Burke; and for Mayor Bloomberg, First Deputy Mayor
Patricia Harris and Deputy Mayor for Operations Edward Skyler.